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...play is well written and well constructed, and the action moves so freely and rapidly that the interest of the audience does not lag for an instant. It is uncommon to find a cast with no weak point, but the acting in "Not So Long Ago" is universally excellent...
...contributions worthy of them, instead of with what at times seems like back work compounded by a worn formula and dealing with a given subject. Of course, a disembodied soul bold enough to venture such advice could hardly hope for a hearing unless he haunted Mt. Auburn Street with uncommon persistence. Nevertheless if he were armed with a message in regard to National Coffee week, or Bolshevism, or some other topic dear to the Lampoon, he might gain audience. Surely his ghostly sayings would express the thought of many material but devoted Lampoon readers, inarticulate but eager for the highest...
...expected that at this meeting a number of new men will report for either cross-country or track. Freshman cross-country men, weight and field men, are particularly needed. Inexperienced men in any branch are urged by the track management to come out, as it is not uncommon for men who have never run before to develop into good material at College. Freshmen are also reminded that participation in track relieves them from compulsory physical training and gives them an opportunity to win their numerals. The 1923 cross-country schedule includes a meet with Yale and Andover and possibly...
Perhaps a few readers of the CRIMSON, gifted with uncommon powers of insight and penetration, have been able to understand what we have been talking about; to such as have, we do commend our crushed and humbled spirits...
Step into any lecture room toward the close of an hour and observe an occurrence which is not uncommon, but which is quite characteristic of the American student. The professor is completing his lecture. Immediately there arises a noise of shuffling feet, of closing note-books, and of clattering tablets as each student prepares to leave the hall. The closing words are a meaningless jumble lost in the general disorder. The students rush out; the professor resignedly gathers up his notes and joins the crowded mass at the door...